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Webster 1828 Edition

Pettishness

PET'TISHNESS

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Adj.

Fretfulness; petulance; peevishness.

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pettishness

pettishness

English

Noun

pettishness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural pettishnesses)

The state of being pettish; peevishness, irritability. [from 17th c.]
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, XVI:
  The sense that she was observed, or, more properly speaking, that she was watched by my looks, seemed to give Diana a mixture of embarrassment, pain, and pettishness.